Every month brings new ways to work smarter, but the challenge is knowing which changes truly make a difference. This issue highlights practical strategies, fresh insights, and upcoming events to help you cut friction, boost productivity, and get more value from your digital workplace.

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Featured Events 📅

Modern intranets should anticipate needs, not just store content. In this session, our experts will show how AI agents, SharePoint templates, and channel-smart communications can cut noise, reduce support tickets, and keep employees in flow. You’ll leave with practical strategies to elevate experience and strengthen governance.

Get Expert Opinions On: 💡

• How AI agents streamline discovery and reduce support load
• Why modern templates speed publishing and boost consistency
• Ways channel-smart communication ensures messages land.

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Our Latest Events This Month

• Automation In A Day Workshop
• Copilot Studio in a Day

Community Events This Month

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📣 Latest announcement

Copilot

Microsoft’s Copilot updates make the tool far more practical for everyday enterprise work: clearer admin reports and PAYG controls help leaders pilot without surprise, UX improvements keep users in flow, and GPT-5 improves output quality which means teams must pair capability with stronger validation and DLP testing.

Key Insights:

• PAYG + agent reporting lets finance and IT see who’s using what and pilot with departmental budgets.
• UX wins (Notebooks, Pages, mobile voice, better conversation history) reduce friction and keep work in context.
• Purview/DLP enhancements and Activity Explorer increase auditability and let security test policies in simulation first.
• GPT-5 boosts reasoning and summaries great for productivity, but demands clearer validation playbooks and monitoring.
  

Read how GPT-5 and Copilot updates change what’s possible and what governance now looks like.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft’s Teams updates are deliberately practical: they make Copilot impossible to miss, protect sensitive conversations, and fold low-friction automation and accessibility straight into meetings small changes that remove everyday friction and make large rollouts easier to manage.

These New Updates Include:

• Copilot is now front-and-center in Teams and can run in AI calls without creating a transcription or recording a win for awareness and privacy.
• Real-time interpreter and improved sign-language mode make multilingual and Deaf/hard-of-hearing participation far easier.
• Smarter meeting recaps (summaries, topic breaks, speaker chapters) let people catch up quickly without rewatching full meetings.
• Lightweight automation (emoji workflows) plus stronger admin controls and diagnostics give frontline teams fast wins while keeping IT in control.

See how Teams’ AI and meeting features cut friction and boost inclusion.

SharePoint

SharePoint Hub Sites let you map your intranet to how employees actually think by function, region, or topic so people find relevant content faster, governance stays simpler, and reorganizations stop being disruptive. Plan hubs around user journeys (what people search for and where they start), not technical hierarchies.

The Break Down:

• Hubs provide a single, consistent navigation and branding layer, making related sites feel like one cohesive place.
• They aggregate news and events from member sites, improving discovery without forcing followership.
• Associations create a flat, flexible structure: move sites between hubs easily and avoid brittle subsites.
• Permissions remain independent (with optional visitor-sync), reducing accidental exposure while keeping governance straightforward.

See how to structure hubs around user journeys and stop reorganizations from breaking things.

Our latest resources, whitepapers and articles 📚

Featured Resource:

BPM and RPA only deliver when they’re orchestrated: use Power Automate, SharePoint Premium, and Copilot Studio to turn fragmented tasks into repeatable, auditable workflows that actually reduce effort and risk. Real-world deployments show dramatic returns think significant cost reductions and near-perfect data accuracy when teams combine process design, low-code automation, and a Center of Excellence to prioritize the right processes and scale safely.

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Featured Articles

Microsoft Power Pages now comes with Copilot, bringing AI into low-code web development. You can generate clear content, summarize complex info, and even build forms or features just by describing what you need. Developers still get full control in Visual Studio Code, but with far less manual work. It’s a faster, smarter way to create and scale digital experiences.

Broken internal links flip a migration from a technical win into a user-facing failure, so make link integrity a tracked KPI: inventory with authenticated crawls to catch links visible only to signed-in users, map old→new URLs and centralize redirects so fixes are fast and auditable, prioritize post-cutover fixes by business impact (fix the workflows that block work first), run automated synthetic workflow checks for the first 30–90 days, and assign clear owners and SLAs so P1 issues don’t erode adoption.

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